Agriculture and Industry

A Case-Study of Capitalist Failure in Northern Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID4964069
AuthorsRob Allen (corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume18
Issue3
Pages427-441
Publication date1980-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00011599
OpenAlexW2012773647
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

Discussion of industrial activity in capitalist Third-World countries has usually centred on a series of dualistic frameworks, most recently the opposition between the so-called 'formal' and 'informal' sectors of an economy. Such dichotomies attempt to divide the activities of labour as cleanly as possible into two groups sharing common characteristics. The categories that emerge - modern/traditional, large/small-scale, formal/informal - overlap to a considerable degree because, in effect, they all attempt, with varying crudity, to compare the socio-economic characteristics of those dominant capitalist enterprises which are based on intensive capital, high-level technology, and a large scale of production, with those activities in the economy which are not based on such features. As such, the second category tends to have both negative and residual components

Agriculture · Capital (architecture) · Dichotomy · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Scale (ratio) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Political Economy and Marxism · World Systems and Global Transformations

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